Steven Kurlander has this piece at the Huff Post calling for a “shoot for the moon” utopian solution to American voting – namely devoting enormous federal resources so people can sit at home or work and vote by computer.  Never mind the enormous security problems associated with this, he also uses a statistical sleight of hand to inject race into the debate:

“The study found that black and Hispanics waited nearly twice as long as whites to cast ballots; urban voters stood on line more than twice as long to vote as their rural counterparts; and Democrats and Independents on average were delayed 20 percent longer than Republican to vote.”

Really?  “Nearly twice as long?”  Here is the vast statistical disparity: 13 vs 20 minutes.

Notice the Huff Post story never mentions the actual numbers.  Why not?  Meow might be the collective reaction.

I somehow doubt a 13, 20, or even 25 or 43 minutes wait to vote is going to warrant the spending of millions (or billions) of federal dollars to develop a way for people to sit at home to vote.  There is value to a unified single day where all Americans come out of their basements, and apartments to vote together.   That some are attention challenged does not warrant a giant federal spending program.